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Welcome to My Favorite Scene! In this series, IndieWire speaks to actors behind our favorite Emmy-nominated television performances about their personal-best onscreen moment and how it came together. In his own favorite scene from “Death by Lightning,” Nick Offerman is not the standout actor. No, that subjective yet irrefutable title goes to Betty Gilpin who, as Lucretia “Crete” Garfield, gets to slap Offerman across the face and inspire his glum vice president to greatness. She drives the action, not him, and it’s her ferocious resolve that lingers in viewers’ minds long after the scene ends. Offerman said his selection, which he made under some duress (“I really don’t like to receive homework assignments like this”), stems from self-effacing generosity: “I don’t love what I’m doing in this scene … so I chose it for Betty and for Bradley and not for myself.” But it’s still the

As an indie stalwart in the publicity and marketing space, Cinetic Marketing has long enjoyed making an outsized impact on the movies that make waves out of festivals and during awards season. Like many outfits, that’s the product of change. In 2025, founder Ryan Werner left the outfit to run distribution at Neon. Under the leadership of Werner and Cinetic Media CEO John Sloss, the publicity and marketing outfit occupied a rare space in an increasingly small orbit. Werner is a gifted cinephile with extraordinary instincts for what smart arthouse audiences would embrace. For every major festival, he would curate a list of movies that every journalist on the beat knew to pay attention to. Werner has taste, and he shepherded many films to unexpected success, from “Flow” to “Drive My Car.” But he was also a workhorse. So when he left Cinetic for Neon last year, the indie community

No modern media property captures the chaotic joy of life in New York City better than “SubwayTakes.” Kareem Rahma’s man-on-the-train interviews manage to celebrate the city’s eclectic characters and extensive public transit systems while providing a platform for the 21st century’s definitive art form, the hot take. With guests that range from Jennifer Lopez and Ethan Hawke to Rahma’s New Yorker friends who have yet to crack the mainstream, the show illustrates how strong opinions and a willingness to defend them are universal human traits. “The show came out of my love of debate and discussion and, honestly… fun,” Rahma said during a recent conversation with IndieWire. “Really the show is about having fun, and about showing the world how much fun a conversation can be.” That commitment to fun is reflected in the conversations, in which guests throw out silly opinions before Rahma replies with “100 percent agree” or “100 percent disagree,

At Disney's D23 event, Marvel Studios announced several cast members for its upcoming "X-Men" film, but one name many fans had expected did not appear. Actor Charles Melton was rumored to be playing Beast/Hank McCoy, but he didn't show, with new reports suggesting may Melton have turned the part down. We might have one reason why now. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Melton is in talks to appear in the live-action "Naruto" film that's being directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (who recently scored the motherload of slam dunks with "Spider-Man: Brand New Day"). Melton's role is reportedly Kakashi Hatake, a masked ninja and one of the main characters of

"Obsession" is probably going to go down as the biggest story at the box office in 2026. It's going to cross the $500 million mark globally any day now, becoming one of the highest-grossing horror movies ever. It's done stuff no other horror movie has done at the box office before. Also, thanks to its insanely thrifty $750,000 budget, it was the most profitable movie ever made. Keyword being "was," because it's already had to surrender that title to a wildly unexpected newcomer. So, what movie took the crown? A super duper low-budget animated Chinese movie by the name of "Niu Lai" has come out of nowhere to become a sensation in its own right,

Universal’s The Odyssey has overtaken Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine to become the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time at the global box office. Christopher Nolan’s Homer adaptation stood at $1.35bn worldwide as of Thursday morning (August 20), surpassing the $1.34bn final tally of Shawn Levy’s 2024 superhero tentpole. The Odyssey has amassed $516.3m in North America and $835.6m internationally, ranking as the second-highest film in both categories for the year to date behind Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day way out in front on more than $2bn and $803m, respectively. Deadpool & Wolverine still holds the record for

Charles Melton is in close talks to play Kakashi Hatake in Destin Daniel Cretton’s upcoming live-action “Naruto” movie, Variety has learned. The news comes amid speculation that Melton would be announced to join the “X-Men” cast at last week’s D23 convention. The global “Naruto” casting search began last month to find the live-action versions of Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura. The manga and popular anime series follow adolescent ninja Naruto, who dreams of becoming his community’s protector and leader known as the village ninja. Variety has reached out to Lionsgate for comment. Melton was recently Emmy-nominated for his role in Netflix’s “Beef” Season 2 alongside Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and Cailee Spaeny. He received critical acclaim for his work in Todd Haynes’ “May December,” which released in 2023, and is also known for starring in “Her Private Hell,” “Warfare” and “Riverdale.” Cretton is coming off of his box-office smash hit “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,

It's tough to imagine a more awkward turn of events than this. At a time when Marvel seems to have hit pause on shotgunning as many Disney+ shows at viewers as possible, "Wonder Man" popped out of nowhere earlier this year to become one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's biggest pleasant surprises. The grounded, low-stakes, and relatively standalone series has since proven a hit with critics, a fiercely loyal fanbase invested in the Los Angeles-based misadventures of Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and his fellow thespian Trevor Slattery (Sir Ben Kingsley), and even Emmy voters. Yet, none of that was enough to save the show from an abrupt cancellation after